Dyslexia Explained

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Dyslexia explained

Curu Maria-Delia

Deuan Adelina Iulia

Lascu Andreea


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What is Dyslexia?

a specific learning disability

impairs a person's fluency or comprehension

accuracy in being able to read

difficulty with phonological awareness and decoding

affects orthographic coding and rapid naming


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Short history 1878-Dr. Kussmaul: the reading blindness

1895- the case of Percy 1925-Dr. Samuel T. Orton: teaching strategies

1939-Dr. Alfred Struss and R. Heinz

Werner:findings in learning difficulties


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Types of dyslexia

Visual dyslexia

Phonological dyslexia

Dyspraxia

Verbal praxis

Dysgraphia

Dyscalculia


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Causes genetic condition

phonological processing impairment

different brain functioning cerebellum dysfunction


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Who has it? Dyslexia appears to be more common in

boys than girls. Dyslexia affects people of all ethnic

backgrounds

A person's native language can play animportant role


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Symptoms1.Symptoms in preschoolers

Problems with pronunciation.

Problems with rhyming words and

learning rhymes.

Difficulty with learning shapes, colours

and how to write their own name.

Difficulty with retelling a story in the

right order of events.


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2.Symptoms in primary school children

Problems with reading a single word.

Tries to avoid reading aloud in class.

Doesnt like reading books.

Reads below their expected level.


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3.Symptoms in high school children Poor reading.

Difficulties with writing summaries.

Problems with learning a foreign language.

Bad spelling, including different misspellings

of the same word in one writing assignment.


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4.Symptoms in adults Doesnt like reading books.

Reading and spelling problems.

Better than average memory.

Avoids tasks that involve writing, or else gets

someone else to do the writing for them.


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Diagnosing DyslexiaEvaluation includes :

observations

input from teachers and parents

analysis of student work

developmental and social histories

intelligence

educational

speech/language assessments


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In fight with Dyslexia

build confidence in children suffering

from dyslexia

help students see written language

phonetically

practice alphabets

create activities

utilize technology to cure dyslexia


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Where to get help? Your doctor

Specialist educational psychologist

Your childs school


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Famous People with Dyslexia


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Things to remember

Dyslexia is characterized by difficulties withreading for no apparent reason.

One of the early symptoms may be the

childs inability to understand rhymingwords.

Dyslexia can be hard to diagnose unless the

problem is severe, so seek professionaladvice from a specialist educational

psychologist.


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